It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

Intellect--brain force.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.

Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.